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  2. Cubic equation - Wikipedia

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    This formula can be straightforwardly transformed into a formula for the roots of a general cubic equation, using the back-substitution described in § Depressed cubic. The formula can be proved as follows: Starting from the equation t 3 + pt + q = 0 , let us set t = u cos θ .

  3. Cube root - Wikipedia

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    Cubic equations, which are polynomial equations of the third degree (meaning the highest power of the unknown is 3) can always be solved for their three solutions in terms of cube roots and square roots (although simpler expressions only in terms of square roots exist for all three solutions, if at least one of them is a rational number).

  4. Cubic function - Wikipedia

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    The derivative of a cubic function is a quadratic function. A cubic function with real coefficients has either one or three real roots (which may not be distinct); [1] all odd-degree polynomials with real coefficients have at least one real root. The graph of a cubic function always has a single inflection point.

  5. Cubic equations of state - Wikipedia

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    This equation may have up to three roots. The maximal root of the cubic equation generally corresponds to a vapor state, while the minimal root is for a liquid state. This should be kept in mind when using cubic equations in calculations, e.g., of vapor-liquid equilibrium.

  6. Casus irreducibilis - Wikipedia

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    Casus irreducibilis (from Latin 'the irreducible case') is the name given by mathematicians of the 16th century to cubic equations that cannot be solved in terms of real radicals, that is to those equations such that the computation of the solutions cannot be reduced to the computation of square and cube roots. Cardano's formula for solution in ...

  7. Cube (algebra) - Wikipedia

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    Mesopotamian mathematicians created cuneiform tablets with tables for calculating cubes and cube roots by the Old Babylonian period (20th to 16th centuries BC). [12] [13] Cubic equations were known to the ancient Greek mathematician Diophantus. [14] Hero of Alexandria devised a method for calculating cube roots in the 1st century CE. [15]

  8. Quartic equation - Wikipedia

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    This is a cubic equation in y. Solve for y using any method for solving such equations (e.g. conversion to a reduced cubic and application of Cardano's formula). Any of the three possible roots will do.

  9. Geometrical properties of polynomial roots - Wikipedia

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    In particular, the real roots are mostly located near ±1, and, moreover, their expected number is, for a large degree, less than the natural logarithm of the degree. If the coefficients are Gaussian distributed with a mean of zero and variance of σ then the mean density of real roots is given by the Kac formula [21] [22]